Site plan - design aims

A review of the existing buildings and the site, informed by local involvement and financial viability, has led us to the following design aims/strategy:

• Retain majority of the existing buildings, returning largely to the massing of the 1950’s factory.
• Include a rich mix with a variety of residential, workspace, leisure and retail with a highly sustainable agenda.
• Relate both to the existing community and to the Bristol/Bath cycle path and develop the factory as a local facility and destination, forming a business, retail and leisure hub principally serving Greenbank and cycle path users.
• Utilise the covered haulingways as the vibrant pedestrian circulation for the existing buildings.
• Maximise the number of family houses on the vacant land surrounding the existing buildings.
• Develop a prototype ‘cycle-house’ that overlooks and has direct access to the cycle path.
• Develop a transport and parking strategy that serves the above while minimising/mitigating impact on the local environment.

In order to return to the clarity of the original factory design, a return to the 1950’s factory shown in the aerial photograph, we have suggested the demolition of the link building between buildings 4 and 5. This returns to the rhythm of building and haulingway on Co-operation Road and breaks down the existing imposing mass. It creates a 16m courtyard between building 4 and 5 with the potential for two new elevations facing this courtyard.

Axonometric model of the site